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The Herdsman and the Lost Bull.

A Herdsman, tending kine in a forest, lost a Bull-calf from the fold.After a long and fruitless search, he made a vow that, if he could onlydiscover the thief who had stolen the Calf he would offer a lamb insacrifice to the Guardian Deities of the forest. Not long afterwards, ashe ascended a small hillock, he saw at its foot a Lion feeding on theCalf. Terrified at the sight, he lifted his eyes and his hands toheaven, and said: "Just now I vowed to offer a lamb to the GuardianDeities of the forest if I could only find out who had robbed me; butnow that I have discovered the thief, I would willingly add a full-grownBull to the Calf I have lost, and give them both to the guardians of theforest, if I may only secure my own escape from this terrible Lion insafety."

That which we are anxious to find, we are sometimes even more anxious toescape from, when we have succeeded in finding it.

From Aesop's Fables